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Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan

PAKISTAN ON THE BRINK: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan

Editorial Review - Kirkus - Jane Doe

In this grim but insightful sequel to Descent into Chaos (2008), veteran Pakistani journalist Rashid's outlook is perfectly expressed by the title of that earlier overview.Not yet a failed state like Somalia, Pakistan is inching perilously close. The irresponsible elite class pays little taxes to an incompetent government whose citizens, long among Asia's most impoverished, are growing poorer. The ... Read full review